The MYSA’s Sports and Leadership Academy is presently training a team of thirty (30) female soccer coaches from Nairobi and its vicinities on basic coaching skills. The five day (5) training which kicked off on the 24th January is taking place at the KCA University and has been organised in conjunction with Care International Kenya which is a development humanitarian organization with a goal to reduce poverty at the household level and to provide relief emergencies.

The workshop whose participants are drawn from different organizations which deal with girl’s football in Nairobi has been structured to strengthen the capacity and increase the number of female coaches within the capital city.
The seminar is being facilitated by Academy’s top coach instructors George Mwangi, David Ouma and the Director for Academy trainings Joseph Jagero.

“It is a great opportunity to conduct this female coaching workshop and we hope after their certification they will be able to demonstrate to a better capacity their skills as coaches” George Mwangi, workshop facilitator.

The workshop will be officially closed on the 28th of January by the head of trainings at Care Kenya office in Nairobi.
The MYSA Academy’s role is to promote the use of Sports for Development as a tool that fosters socio-economic development. Using a variety of consultancy and training products and services, the Academy is mandated to support various organisations, institutions and communities, both regionally and internationally to adopt sports for Development as a development tool.

The Academy’s mandate includes distilling lessons gained from MYSA’s 25 years of experience in the implementation of sports for development oriented activities. This is done by conducting monitoring, evaluation and research. The results are then documented and used to support the replication of best practice.